Cushion for bottle-cases.



Patented Oct. 3, I899.

B KUCHS CUSHION FUR BUTTLE CASES. Ap pl t man: 20 1899 (No Model.)

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NITED STATES BENJAMIN KOOHS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCIIOEN- TIIALER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, .OF SAME PLACE.

CUSHION FOR BOTTLE-CASES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,35 5, dated October 3, 1899.

Application filed March 20, 1899. Serial No. 709,715. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN KOCHS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful- Improvements in Cushions for Bottle-Oases, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to cushions adapted for use in'bottle-packin g cases to prevent any jar that may result to said cases from acting directly upon the bottles contained therein to cause the breakage of said bottles.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure I is a perspective view of a bottlecase with my improved cushion illustrated Fig. II is a face view of afragment of the cushion. Fig. III is a sectional View taken on line 111 III, Fig. II. Fig. IV is a view showing the cushion applied to a bottle.

My improved cushion is more particularly intended for application to the bottom of a bottle-packing box, as shown in Fig. I, but is also adapted for use in cushioning bottles, as shown in Fig. IV, Where it is illustrated as surrounding the body of the bottle. The cushion is composed of a sheet of veneering or thin wood, in which series of loops 1 and 2 are cut, the loops 1 extending from one side of the original plane of the sheet, While the loops 2 extend in the opposite direction, as shown clearly in Fig. III, whereby there is formed a practically elliptical spring composed of each two adjacent loops extending in opposite directions. The loops are arranged in series extending across the sheet and are separated at their-ends from the succeeding series by uncut portions 3, and the loops of one series are ofiset from those of the next series for the purpose of gaining greater strength in the construction of the cushion-sheet and preventing the strip from splitting in the line of the loops, which, according to this construction,there is less liability of their doing, as the edge line of each loop is arranged parallel to the line through the body of the next succeeding loops at each end thereef.

In Fig. I, -:l designates the packing-box containing partition -filling 5, within which is illustrated a bottle 6, seated on my improved cushion.

In Fig. IV the bottle 7 is shown inclosed by sheets of the cushion, by means of which a number of bottles arranged in a packing-box may be protected from striking against each other and becoming broken even in the absence of partition-filling Within the boX.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, a cush= ion for bottle-cases comprising athin sheet of wood having loops cut therefrom projecting in opposing directions from theoriginal plane of said sheet, said loops being arranged in series and those of one series being offset from those of the adjacent series, substan tially as described.

BENJAMIN KOGHS. 

